- Community Healing Space -
ACROSS THE DIVIDE
Across The Divide
Facilitated by John Kinyon
The next Across the Divide: TBA
This Community Healing Space is held on different days and times in the month.
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Across the Divide invites group conversations for healing Social-Political Divides. It is an open group forum for social-political topics to be talked about with an empathic conversation structure and process.
Join these group conversations on the vital and urgent social questions of our time in the spirit of empathy, compassion, and care.
The intention of this Community Healing Space is to experience connection as we feel our underlying commonalities and larger wholeness as human beings and living beings of the planet — demonstrating and spreading the impact an empathic conversation structure has in creating understanding, connection, healing, wellbeing, cooperation, and the emergence of new creative possibilities.
Even in times of division, we can empathically listen and authentically express in a way that creates understanding and connection. This is an opportunity for healing collective and generational divides.
The Across the Divide process uses an empathic conversation structure where we take turns mindfully speaking and listening with a focus on understanding rather than agreement as we connect to what we share in common — our human feelings, needs, values, and desires. All are invited to participate, and you are also welcome to just listen and witnessing without speaking if you choose.
This is a great place to build empathic community and connection. It is also a space to practice skills together for navigating and transforming conflict into connection, cooperation, and new possibilities.
People who attend report having powerful, moving, deeply connecting, and even transformational experiences.
Being able to effectively communicate about and heal our individual and collective divides is key to maintaining, strengthening, and evolving democracy.
The conversation process has the goal of creating empathic listening, authentic sharing, understanding, and compassionately connecting to our shared humanity.
The intention is to foster a space that allows for the emergence of new creative possibilities. These conversations can be difficult when we have very different realities about what's going on. When we learn how to have these conversations, we create more of the world we know is possible. A world with less violence, more connection, and collaboration — where we work together to face challenges.
All are invited to participate, and you are also welcome to just listen and witnessing without speaking if you choose. Please invite anyone in your community who you think might be interested.
You are welcome to attend this event for free, and receiving financial support helps John to continue to offer this work to the world. If it's your first time attending, you can give later if you wish, after you've had the experience. I welcome a one time payment or a monthly amount via Paypal. $25 per event is suggested.
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